Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Million Dollar Apps






Remember the old bumper sticker that says "I'm spending my kids' inheritance"? Turns out that the little rugrats are turning the tables and spending our retirement money. But instead of spending it all at the local head shop like I did my friends did, kids these days are blowing them all on Apps for their smart phones.

According to the Washington Post,

Over the winter break from school, 8-year-old Madison worked to dress up her simple mushroom home on the iPhone game Smurfs' Village. In doing so, she also amassed a $1,400 bill from Apple.


Consumeraffairs.com was raising alarms about this about two months before The Post got on the case. Of course, you could read all about it on The Post's own iPad App for just $3.99 a month.

1 comment:

Bijoux said...

This is why we only have the free phones offered by our plans and I called to disable data function on all phones. Learned the hard way when my son ran up a $40 bill one month on FB when he first got his phone. "Nobody told me I couldn't go on the internet on my phone!"